Far-right candidate Sinan Ogan’s endorsement remains particularly critical for President Erdogan’s rival, with merely nine days to go until the presidential election runoff. Political traffic in Turkey heated up on Friday, as both President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his top rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, courted the country’s far-right electoral alliance ahead …

The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt publicly praised Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s participation in the summit after Syria was readmitted to the Arab League. Arab leaders gathered in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Friday for the annual Arab League summit. Many of them welcomed Syria’s participation, which …

The 49th G-7 summit kicked off on Friday in Hiroshima, Japan, and Russia’s war in Ukraine was at the top of the agenda. The bloc unveiled new measures to further restrict Russian access to their countries’ economies, including stricter export controls on Russian oil and gas, transportation efforts, and aircraft …